Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose…
Former CIA Officer: President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden
He let Americans evaluate omniscient domestic surveillance for themselves
Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon
Exclusive: Whistleblower says citizens have benefited from his disclosure in 2013 of US and UK government surveillance
The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World's Spy Agencies
Morgan Marquis-Boire is the director of security for First Look Media, the most prolific publisher of Edward Snowden's remaining secrets. His daunting task is to safeguard those documents, as well as the communications of reporters with perhaps the press's most adversarial relationships with Western intelligence agencies.
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
“Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel \_\_\_\_\_\_ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”
Transcript of Edward Snowden's comments at IETF93.
Transcript of Edward Snowden's comments at IETF93. · GitHub
Snowden's Chronicler Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance
In a journal and FBI files shared as part of her Whitney Museum exhibit, Laura Poitras finally turns her lens of observation onto herself.
Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
We now know the apparatus of repression has been attached to the democratic state, but our struggle for privacy is far from hopeless. By Eben Moglen
He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen.
Redirecting internet traffic from entire countries was one of the "ridiculously cool" projects undertaken by an NSA hacker who spoke with The Intercept.
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
The Intercept Sues to Uncover Secretive Government Anti-Protestor Database
Department of Homeland Security Refuses to Comply with FOIA Requests Relating to Unlawful and Undemocratic First Amendment Stifling Effort
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
Copy of Digital Masquerade
The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists By Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham, CAMS
Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of Trump Administration Executive Actions
Ongoing coverage, including in concise “What Just Happened” expert explainers, legal and policy analysis, and other resources.
GPG Key Transition Statement - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog
After 8 years, I’ve decided to transition from my original GPG key and replace it with one that uses a stronger master key that meets NIST guidelines. Over 8 years ago–probably while lounging in my tiny dorm room in engineering school–I decided that I wanted the ability to communicate with my friends & family privately. I decided that I wanted the ability to encrypt my emails. I decided to generate a gpg key. In 2009–4 years before Edward Snowden unveiled that the US government was violating their own constitution by collecting & storing the internet activity of hundreds of millions of innocent US citizens–I generated & published my first gpg keypair. Since those teenage years, I graduated college with degrees in Computer Science and Secure Computing & Networking, worked for major tech firms, and begun working for the best independent journalism outlet in the US–Democracy Now! Though my colleagues, friends, & family infrequently used my gpg key in the past (don’t tell the NSA!), I finally work with a great team of people that take security seriously, and I’m using gpg to sign & encrypt my daily work emails. Unfortunately, my original master key was generated using gpg’s defaults . . . → Read More: GPG Key Transition Statement
Let’s Encrypt Everything
I’ll admit I was late to the HTTPS party. But post Snowden, and particularly after the result of the last election here in the US, it’s clear that everything on the web should be encrypted by default. Why? 1. You have an inalienable right to privacy, both in
